Ultra Iron Golem on the 27th Floor

[Floor 26] – Resting.

I immediately went up to [Floor 27].

Having a goal fueled my desire to climb.

I’ll reach level 30 this time and receive the main Quest!

“Let’s do our best~.”

I raised my fist high and shouted.

[Floor 27]

The room was clean.

And,

In the middle of the room,

A steel cube.

[Floor 27 Ultra Iron Golem]

Black letters.

A house-sized steel cube stood imposingly, displaying an information window.

“What is this?”

A low-quality cube.

It was bumpy.

Up close, the surface wasn’t as smooth as it looked from afar.

I hit it with my sword.

Ting.

I hit it gently, but it didn’t even leave a scratch.

“….”

Ting.

Ting ting.

Ting.

Clang.

A chip broke off the blade.

“….”

Steel cube.

Steel sword.

“How am I supposed to defeat this?”

Americano circled the steel cube several times.

Looking for gaps or weaknesses.

I stood in front of it again.

I took out a new sword.

Equal material.

Utter defeat in size.

Defeating the [Ultra Iron Golem] depended on other factors.

For example, a Skill.

“Hoo…”

I gathered [Magical Power].

Concentrating to the maximum.

My hands were cold.

Raising my sword,

[Execution Sword]

I swung the strongest blow from top to bottom.

Did it split the steel surface?

Rumble.

It left a shallow scratch.

Rumble rumble.

[Execution Sword] had even split the head of a [Basilisk], but the [Basilisk]’s hide was only about the thickness of a fist. The skull was about the same.

But the [Ultra Iron Golem] was made entirely of steel, both the surface and the core.

The thickness far surpassed the [Basilisk], possessing overwhelming defense.

Rumble rumble rumble rumble.

The [Ultra Iron Golem] awakened.

Raising its heavy body.

Revealing its joints,

The joints broke the cube into pieces, creating a shape.

Steel pieces gathered to become arms and legs.

Completing the body by creating a head.

The steel giant rose.

Clang!!

The sword broke.

“Kugh..!”

Even [Enhancing] and protecting the sword with [Magical Power], it was difficult to remain unscathed after hitting solid steel.

I took out a new sword.

[Slash]

[Slash]

[Slash]

[Execution Sword]

Clang!!

Americano struck the area where she had made a scratch.

Very slightly, even [Slash] left a scratch.

The area that was shallowly split by [Execution Sword] was the [Ultra Iron Golem]’s leg.

If I could cut it off,

‘I can knock it down!’

[Slash]

The launched [Slash] aimed for the scratch.

Digging in very shallowly.

Slowly,

Heavily,

Ooooooong.

A steel fist flew like a whip.

I [Leap]ed to avoid it.

Fortunately, the [Ultra Iron Golem] was clumsy compared to its terrifying defense.

I [Leap]ed to avoid it, and using the swung steel arm as a stepping stone, I [Leap]ed once more to create distance.

Thud.

Thud.

Thud.

[Ultra Iron Golem].

Too long to say.

Just Golem.

When the Golem took a step,

Thud thud thud.

The floor shook.

“….”

I racked my brain for every possible way to defeat the Golem.

Unconscious exploration dissected the Golem.

No Electrical Signals.

However, because it was steel, it was electrified, and I could estimate the Golem’s shape and location without looking.

[Leap]

[Slash]

I jumped in and struck the scratch on the Golem’s leg.

The vibration of steel against steel echoed in my hand.

One more time.

[Slash]

Clang!

I slashed and moved away.

The Golem lightly lifted its leg and tried to kick.

The floor caught on the Golem’s toe.

Will it fall?

Rather, the floor was torn apart by the Golem’s kick, showering Americano with countless floor fragments.

A large amount of fragments.

I can’t avoid it.

[Slash]

I slashed.

I slashed repeatedly, cutting down the floor fragments to avoid the impact.

But,

“Haa…”

A cold breath was exhaled thickly.

The fragments flew in almost simultaneously.

Blocking them all in an instant caused that much continuous [Slash] and [Magical Power] consumption.

Cutting [Slash] short, 8 consecutive [Slash].

Temporarily, a chill filled my lungs.

If I don’t use [Magical Power], it will cool down quickly and recover.

The Golem was slow.

Thud.

Thud.

Thud.

It walked leisurely.

But the stride was long.

Only three steps.

The Golem tilted its upper body and slammed its steel palm down.

Americano avoided the steel palm, brushed past the steel arm, and climbed onto the Golem’s shoulder.

Raising the sword high.

[Execution Sword]

Cutting the neck.

“Kugh…”

The sword vibrated intensely.

Lifting the sword from a slight scratch, the Golem also raised its body and reached out its hand.

Just as I was about to [Leap] to avoid it.

───My leg was grabbed.

“..?!”

It took off my shoe.

I [Leap]ed and escaped.

I felt the texture of the [Floor 27] floor with my bare feet.

The steel pieces that made up the Golem’s shoulder buried my ankle.

‘Attacking by climbing on…’

“…might be a little difficult.”

It’s tough.

‘But whatever.’

The Golem was clumsy.

‘I just won’t climb on its back.’

I took out the Magic Sword.

Flame.

The Magic Sword’s flames engulfed the Golem.

Melt.

Melt.

Melt!

…It didn’t melt.

It wouldn’t melt no matter how much I set it on fire.

That’s what the sensation coming from the flames told me.

I swung the Magic Sword.

Flame.

Explosion.

Whoosh.

The fireball spread and covered the Golem, but the Golem was unharmed. It didn’t even flinch.

“This is driving me crazy.”

How am I supposed to catch that?

1 hour.

2 hours.

4 hours.

6 hours.

9 hours.

12 hours.

Crazy.

“Haa..! Haa..! Cough..! Heugh..! Haa..! Cough cough..!”

My eyes were bloodshot.

My complexion was pale.

I clutched my heart.

I took off my breastplate.

As if untying a rope around my neck, my chest was freed from the breastplate, and I could breathe.

Moreover, the chill had frozen the breastplate, cooling my body even more.

The sense of liberation was so great that I wondered why I hadn’t taken it off sooner.

My heart raced.

Thump thump thump.

Thump thump thump.

It was violent, as if it were broken.

“Cough..!”

Blood was mixed in with my cough.

My lungs were torn.

It wasn’t that the moisture caused by the temperature difference had frozen.

[Heal]

I fixed it.

Cold.

It’s cold, but now the cold from [Heal] felt almost warm.

‘…I wish it were.’

Warm my ass.

I shivered.

I took up my sword.

The tip of the sword also trembled.

I tried to lift the tip of the sword, but I couldn’t lift it from below.

I couldn’t put strength into my arm.

Hang in there.

I can still do it.

Barely…

Barely..!

…Too much time had passed to dismiss it as barely.

The steel palm slammed down.

[Leap]

A weak [Leap] barely avoided the steel palm and rolled across the floor.

I pushed off the floor with my feet, pulling my body along as if dragging myself with my hands.

“Heck..! Heck..!”

The battle with the Golem was monotonous.

The Golem’s weapon was its heavy body itself.

Using its overwhelming defense, it swung its body, a mindless mass, to attack.

There was no technique to it.

It was a weapon in itself.

It was easy to avoid the attacks.

But its defense was so ridiculously high that it overwhelmed that weakness.

While running on two feet.

“Ugh…”

My legs gave out, and I put my hands back on the floor.

“Haa..! Haa..!!”

Cough cough..!

I spat blood on the floor.

I used [Heal] on my lungs.

Ugh… It’s cold.

It felt like tearing off raw flesh to heal it.

Receiving [Heal], my body, which was cooling down little by little, ached as if pricked by needles.

I ran again.

I created distance.

I staggered, but I couldn’t die now.

This was stubbornness.

There was also a desire to die and be comfortable.

It would be a lie to say there wasn’t.

But that was a pathetic voice in my heart that ignored the fact that I would have to do the same thing again.

“Haa..! Haa..! Keuh..! Cough..! Keuh..! Kerok..!”

My breathing was a mess.

I leaned against the wall and caught my breath.

Rough breathing.

No, broken breathing.

It’s hard to breathe.

Dyspnea.

‘I feel like I’m suffocating.’

Ominous words kept surfacing above the surface of my mind.

I held my chest and tried to calm myself as much as possible.

I calmed myself down by hitting it.

The [Magical Power] in the Magic Sword…

Clang.

The Magic Sword broke in half.

Because the [Magical Power] was exhausted.

The Magic Sword, which had run out of [Magical Power], became an ordinary sword and couldn’t withstand the cold of the [Nine Yin Severed Meridians].

It broke violently due to the difference in height between the areas where [Magical Power] remained and those where it didn’t.

Was it because I saw hope being shattered?

What I had barely held back burst out with a surge.

Gush.

My complexion became even paler.

Nausea.

Something rose from within.

As I clutched my stomach,

“Uweeek.”

I vomited blood.

It was blood that had accumulated in my stomach.

How many times is this…

Damn it.

“Haa..! Haa..! Uweeek. Sseup..! Heueuk..! Sseuheueuk..!”

I thumped my chest.

I wiped the blood from my mouth.

There was still one Magic Sword left in my Inventory.

I took out the Magic Sword.

I lit a fire.

I warmed my body.

I felt like I was going to live.

No…

“Kkeueu…”

As my senses returned, the pain that had been cooled and numbed exploded all over my body.

It was itchy,

I was going crazy.

I scratched my bare skin with my fingernails.

My gaze was directed at the Golem.

If the Golem was okay,

‘Just a little more…’

Of course, it couldn’t be okay.

I had dug in little by little.

Because the Golem’s attack pattern was monotonous, it was very easy to land attacks.

It was almost repetitive work.

What I was doing was similar to the [Basilisk] fight.

I slashed until it was cut.

It was easier than that time,

It was harder than that time.

I’m glad I brought a lot of swords.

No…

‘I should have brought more.’

Thanks to saving them, I was able to leave at least one behind.

There were no more ordinary swords,

No more Magic Swords,

No more Orc Axes.

This was the last one.

“Heueu..! Kkeueueuk..!”

My breathing wouldn’t calm down.

The Golem… The [Ultra Iron Golem] had, as its name suggested, a ridiculously high defense.

Thanks to the fact that it didn’t have any recovery ability, it didn’t know how to recover even if it took 1 damage.

Moreover, this was a world that was extremely similar to reality. If you kept inflicting damage 1 to the same area, it would eventually be cut.

At first, it was the Golem’s leg.

The area where I first made a scratch.

Next was the arm.

Next was the leg again.

Next was the arm again.

It was cutting off the limbs.

But I made a mistake.

The steel cube was divided into steel pieces that freely solidified into the current shape.

I succeeded in cutting off the limbs, but the severed arms reattached.

Like magnets.

I thought I was really going crazy then.

Even [Berserk] was about to lose its power.

Still, it still helped when it came to creating new vitality.

Like blowing on the embers to revive them, [Berserk] ignited the emotion of will.

There was no firewood to burn, so I was barely holding on with the scraps left by the firewood…

Scraps were the mental things left in the exhausted stamina.

So, I had to endure mentally?

‘I’ll endure as much as you want.’

I gritted my teeth and endured.

Golem.

[Ultra Iron Golem]

Even though it reattached its arms, the shape of the attached arms didn’t look very good.

───It’s getting blurry.

Stagger.

Ugh…

I rubbed my eyes.

My vision was blurry.

It got blurry.

It got blurry.

It wasn’t in focus.

Damn it.

Even sleepiness was attacking.

I was cold and hungry.

It was painful and agonizing.

Now I was even sleepy.

───It’s the best.

Half sincere. Half bluff.

I smiled.

I had to laugh in times like this.

Laughter is good.

I felt something pleasant being squeezed out from inside my body.

It’s just a game.

There’s no need to worry about dying.

How fantastic of a paradise is this?

“Haha.”

Cough cough.

I breathed roughly.

I raised my creaking body.

It felt like my bones were going to come apart.

[Ultra Iron Golem]

‘What a corny name.’

“Cough cough.”

Blood.

I raised my sword again towards it.

I cut off the rest of the arms.

[Execution Sword]

The body and arms are separated.

I swung the Magic Sword.

Flame.

Explosion.

I caused an explosion on the detached arm to separate it from the body.

The body twitched.

It couldn’t move.

It was over.

My body, which had been barely standing on the floor, collapsed, creating a hole in my stamina.

Like a doll with its strings cut.

I fell to the floor.

I opened my mouth wide.

I drooled.

I didn’t have time to care about drool.

Rough and messy breaths came and went.

It was over.

That thought became a switch.

Even the vitality that had been forcibly moving my body disappeared all at once.

I didn’t even have the strength to raise my upper body, so I barely… barely… pushed with my trembling arm and turned my body over.

I finally felt comfortable.

In the prone position, it was difficult to breathe because my chest was pressed against the floor.

Haa…!

“Haaack..!”

A wide open mouth.

I wanted as much breath as possible.

I stretched out in a large shape and rested for several tens of minutes until I felt comfortable.

But suddenly.

…?

The clear message wasn’t appearing.

I tried to raise my upper body.

My arm trembled and bent.

“Ugh…”

I only turned my head and looked at the Golem.

The Golem was still moving its head.

I had cut off its limbs, but it seemed that I hadn’t met the clear conditions with that alone.

“Haa… Haaa…”

Americano moved away from the Golem.

I dragged my body and leaned against the wall.

I leaned on the wall and raised my body.

“Haaack..!”

It felt like my insides were going to come up through my wide open mouth.

It came up.

“Uweeek.”

I vomited blood.

The liquid churning inside was blood.

My stomach was wriggling.

It felt like it was squeezing and wringing out blood as it shrank.

I had vomited everything, but I felt the liquid filling up again.

I painted the wall with blood.

Not a large amount.

If it were, I would have died already.

It was just getting up, but my heart, which had been calming down, started racing madly again.

I wiped the blood from the corner of my mouth with the back of my hand.

My vision was spinning.

Anemia?

Dizziness?

Stagger.

Endure.

I put my head against the wall.

I barely managed to keep my balance.

‘Sword…’

Only my eyes rolled from side to side.

Where did I put the sword?

There it is.

Right in front of the Golem’s nose.

Stagger.

Stagger.

I picked up the sword.

I trembled as I picked it up and fell, putting my hand on the floor.

“Haa… Haaack…!”

It’s hard.

It’s painful.

It hurts.

I want to rest..!

Why aren’t I dying and enduring..?

Why isn’t it clear..!!

Ah… My vision is spinning.

I slammed my forehead on the floor.

“Kkeueuk…”

I lifted my legs.

I raised my body.

Think.

‘I have to finish it now.’

If it ends here now, I’ll have to go through the same procedure again next time I come.

I’ll come with more preparations then, but no matter what measures I take, the Golem’s terrible defense will drag on the time terribly.

If I don’t want to repeat this crap again…

‘I have to finish it now.’

I take up my sword.

I circulated [Magical Power].

I forcibly injected vitality into my body.

…It’s cold.

It hurts.

I want to stop..!

The voice in my weak heart.

My hand holding the sword gained strength from the irritation of my own weakness.

Tear the muscles.

It’ll recover anyway.

I [Enhancement]ed it.

I [Enhancement]ed it.

I [Enhancement]ed it!

[Enhancement]!

A chill swept over me.

White frost flowers bloomed on my chest.

The temperature around her dropped sharply below freezing.

It’s easy to exceed the limit.

The [Nine Yin Severed Meridians] was a cold but inexhaustible spring.

The [Magical Power] squeezed beyond the limit converged on the sword.

A blind sword that didn’t consider the aftermath.

‘Die.’

[Execution Sword]

I cut off the Golem’s head.

I don’t know what happens next.

I felt the sensation of my hand touching the floor with the sword not broken, and my vision slammed into the floor.

I lost consciousness.

And I wake up.

I was still in the Tower.